Quote (cambovenzi @ Aug 15 2021 05:31pm)
Low IQ caricatures and cliches are not good replacements for arguments, intellect and consideration.
Once upon a time we had private fire departments. We stopped doing that because the delays caused by negotiating for the cost to put out the fire resulted in fires spreading and massively abused practices.
Fire starts, fire department rolls up, says "we'll put this out for 50k, or you can lose everything". Neighbor haggles down to 10k, but now his neighbor his on fire.
This scenario is well documented as far back as ancient Rome and is why we have things like public fire departments. There are just certain things that we have literally hundreds of years of example to point to as to why it doesn't work and the essential services such as fire departments, police, and infrastructure are among them.